This reference shows you the best way to secure yourself, your family, or your clients against fraudulent transfers. It analyzes the common patterns of fraudulent transfers, including intrafamily transactions, estate planning, marital arrangements, and elder law. It also discusses in detail pre-bankruptcy planning, including how to convert nonexempt assets into exempt assets.

Intended to serve as a reference for both lawyers and non-lawyers who are handling intellectual property aspects of transactions in the area of mergers and acquisitions. A pragmatic approach is taken, offering various options, approaches, examples, and practice tips to guide the you in drafting documents and working through the multiple issues that may arise. The initial chapters provide an overview of the fundamentals of intellectual property and merger and acquisition transactions. Other chapters are devoted to the key phases of the transaction, such as due diligence, transaction agreements, and ancillary closing documents.

This title provides in-depth analysis of construction litigation issues, from the viewpoint of both plaintiff and defendant counsel. It examines litigation, trial, and appellate issues, and the topics discussed include elements and formation of contracts, interpretation of contracts, exculpatory clauses, changes, extras, scheduling and delay, breach, stopping the work, rescission, damages, negligence, warranty, and strict liability, fraud, misrepresentation and other causes of action, indemnity, insurance, and performance bonds.

This treatise provides complete coverage of employment arbitration and is written as a practice guide for employment specialists as well as general practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the background of arbitration, it then covers creating effective arbitration provisions (with forms, examples, and checklists) and discusses how to arbitrate employment disputes. It also covers post-arbitration litigation. Other topics covered include adoption of employment arbitration programs, litigation about employment arbitration, and penalties for frivolous vacatur petitions. Arbitration forms, language, clauses, and procedures are provided

This product is a multi-volume set containing judicial definitions, from both state and federal courts, of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically. Definitions may pertain to statutory language, court rules, administrative regulations, or business documents, among other sources. Each definition contains a citation from the court that provided the definition. Each definition is also classified by West’s attorney-editors to the West Key Number System®. Through pocket part supplementation, all new judicial constructions and interpretations of words and phrases are promptly supplied as they become available from the courts.

Firmly established as the most widely cited law book in the world, Black's Law Dictionary is the definitive legal resource for lawyers, law students and laypeople alike. The 9th Edition is the most comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains:

A step-by-step guide that safely leads you through every crucial phase of your criminal defence case, from initial considerations of the case through dealing with the trial judge. This three-volume resource: